Make signature appear on all pages on print

Report · Sep 13, 2019

Hello evereyone!

I've been searching this topic in the forum for a while now, and I understand that once you sign a multi-page PDF, all of the pages are technically signed, but none of the topics I found really solve my issue. My issue is the following:

I have a bunch of PDF with upwards to 200 pages that, once printed, need to have the digital signature appear on ALL pages. This is due to Brazillian legislation, which is really dumb, but what do you do.

What I need is for the same digital signature to appear on the same area (bottom right, for example), on all pages, once the whole thing is printed. Obviously, it would require some sort of batch proccessing, since manually doing all 200 signature areas per document is just plain dumb. The signature can overlap with the content, no problem.

Any suggestions?

Report · Sep 13, 2019

For most Widget types (Stamp, etc.) it is possible to have multiple copies of the Appearance, so that one copy of a Stamp could be made to appear on 200 pages. Unfortunately for you, Digital Signatures are the sole Widget type for which multiple appearances are not allowed. You would need to sign the document 200 times, which would make the document huge, and the processing time for validation unbearable. See if you can get permission to use a Stamp on each page, with a single Digital Signature for the entire document.